[Openstreetmap] Re: Re: OSM License and debian

[SteveC]

* @ 26/05/05 12:39:00 PM jo at frot.org wrote:
> the INSPIRE proposed directive goes into first reading in the European
> Parliament on 6th June. It currently contains a clause that allows the
> European Commission to establish, at any time, a common licensing and
> pricing policy for many sets of European spatial data, with no further
> recourse to represenative bodies, only needing the consent of its
> advisory group composed of representatives of national mapping
> agencies. http://inspire.jrc.it/ , 
> http://www2.europarl.eu.int/oeil/FindByProcnum.do?lang=2&procnum=COD/2004/0175
> INSPIRE doesn't cover streetlevel data, though it's hard to imagine a
> functional NSDI without it. 
> 
> Please consider writing a short note on the subject of the social and
> economic value of open geodata, to your Euro MP.

eeek. one of my euro mp's is a UKIP nutter.

got some links on things to say in a letter?

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/